# Us Contractor Licenses (`great_pistachio/us-contractor-licenses`) Actor

Contractor, trade, and professional license records across WA, CT, CO, and TX in one feed from official open data. Business, owner/principal, license type, status, address, and phone. Filter by trade and pull only recently issued licenses for fresh leads or credential verification.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/great\_pistachio/us-contractor-licenses.md
- **Developed by:** [Saturnin Pugnet](https://apify.com/great_pistachio) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $8.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## US Contractor & Professional License Search

Contractor, trade, and professional license records across **Washington, Connecticut, Colorado, and Texas** in one unified feed, straight from official state open-data portals. No key, no browser, near-zero maintenance.

### What you get

- **Fresh licensee leads** — pull only licenses issued (or updated) in the last N days for newly-licensed contractors, agents, and pros.
- **Credential verification (KYB)** — look up a business or person by name and confirm license number, type, status, and expiration.
- **Targeted trade lists** — filter by license type (HVAC, electrical, plumbing, real estate, cosmetology, and more).

### Sources

| Source | Coverage | New-license date |
|--------|----------|------------------|
| Washington L\&I | Registered construction contractors (business, owner/principal, specialty, phone) | ✅ effective date |
| Connecticut eLicense | All professions (trades, real estate, healthcare, cosmetology…) | ✅ issue date |
| Colorado DORA | All professions | ✅ first-issue date |
| Texas TREC | Real-estate agents & brokers | ✅ (via record update) |
| Texas TDLR | Trades: A/C, electrical, plumbing… (owner, business, county) | registry lookup (no date) |

### Input

```json
{ "sources": ["wa"], "licenseTypeFilter": "electric", "sinceDays": 30 }
```

```json
{ "sources": ["ct", "co"], "nameContains": "acme", "sinceDays": 3650 }
```

```json
{ "sources": ["tx_trades"], "licenseTypeFilter": "a/c", "maxResultsPerSource": 500 }
```

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `sources` | Which registries: `wa`, `ct`, `co`, `tx_agents`, `tx_trades`. Empty = all |
| `licenseTypeFilter` | Substring match on license type/specialty (e.g. `hvac`, `plumb`, `real estate`) |
| `nameContains` | Substring match on licensee / business / owner name |
| `zipPrefix` | Keep only ZIPs starting with this prefix |
| `sinceDays` | New licenses in the last N days (date-based sources). Large value = full registry |
| `maxResultsPerSource` | Cap per source (required for `tx_trades`, which has no date column) |
| `maxResults` | Overall cap. 0 = unlimited |

### Output

Each record: `state`, `source`, `licenseeName`, `businessName`, `ownerName`, `licenseNumber`, `licenseType`, `specialty`, `status`, `issueDate`, `expirationDate`, `address`, `city`, `stateCode`, `zip`, `phone`, `county`, `sourceUrl`, `dataSource`.

### Related Actors

- [US New Business Filings](https://apify.com/great_pistachio/us-new-business-filings) — new business registrations across 6 states
- [US Building Permits](https://apify.com/great_pistachio/us-building-permits) — daily permits, solar/roofing/HVAC leads
- [US Business Search](https://apify.com/great_pistachio/us-business-search) — multi-state entity search & KYB

# Actor input Schema

## `sources` (type: `array`):

Which state registries to pull. Leave empty for all.

## `licenseTypeFilter` (type: `string`):

Only include licenses whose type/specialty contains this text (case-insensitive), e.g. 'electric', 'plumb', 'hvac', 'real estate', 'contractor'. Leave empty for all.

## `nameContains` (type: `string`):

Only include records whose licensee, business, or owner name contains this text (case-insensitive). Leave empty for all.

## `zipPrefix` (type: `string`):

Only include records whose ZIP starts with this prefix (where a ZIP is published). Leave empty for all.

## `sinceDays` (type: `integer`):

For date-based sources (WA, CT, CO, TX agents), only licenses issued/updated in the last N days. Use a large value (e.g. 3650) to pull the full registry.

## `maxResultsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Cap per source. Required for the TX trades source (no date column). 0 = unlimited for date-based sources.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Cap total across all sources. 0 = unlimited.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sources": [],
  "licenseTypeFilter": "",
  "nameContains": "",
  "zipPrefix": "",
  "sinceDays": 30,
  "maxResultsPerSource": 50,
  "maxResults": 0
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `defaultDataset` (type: `string`):

Contractor, trade, and professional license records - business/licensee name, owner, license type, status, issue date, address and phone where published

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxResultsPerSource": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("great_pistachio/us-contractor-licenses").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxResultsPerSource": 50 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("great_pistachio/us-contractor-licenses").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxResultsPerSource": 50
}' |
apify call great_pistachio/us-contractor-licenses --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=great_pistachio/us-contractor-licenses",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zajZj4mM2RaX3iQdS/builds/fywlFwY1KO9Odsssj/openapi.json